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by arghwhat 3y ago
The second and third line of arguing, underlining the technical issue rather than privacy, might still work for those individuals. There will always be people you cannot convince however, either because they have different ideologies or bei
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by arghwhat 3y ago
I doubt ad targeting actually uses AI, at least not in the quite heavy form we currently associate with the term, but the rest of your point stands. However, I am not sure if using examples of something currently considered crime will work
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by arghwhat 3y ago
"You also don't do anything illegal in your mail and email, so the government can also read those, right? And you never speed so the government can get a black box in your car, right? And you never download anything illegal so the
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by arghwhat 3y ago
On the other hand, the video spends a significant amount of time explaining how the product is well super well designed and comes with a lot of features. It is just completely and utterly useless for its intended purpose with no redeeming
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by arghwhat 3y ago
> For ordinary free-and-open-source software, the source code availability largely guarantees community control. However, the same often does not apply to drivers. Even with source code availability, they're often written by vendors
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by arghwhat 3y ago
HFS+ was an old, journaling filesystem. The simplification is that it is a filesystem that just writes the changes you ask for directly to disk (e.g., overwriting the content of a file), with the catch that it first writes what it's ab
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by arghwhat 3y ago
> bypassing the official driverto The driver is not bypasses. This is a patch to the official open-source kernel-driver where the feature is added, which is how all upstream Linux driver development is done. > to invoke the underlying
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by arghwhat 3y ago
This is wrong on all points. GDPR quotes that directly contradict this below. Quoting GDPR Article 4, point 1 ( https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/ ): > ‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identifi
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by arghwhat 3y ago
In your analogy, the keyserver is a phone book. You can find keys there, and yes you can try to use them, but it's not like telling someone you can be contacted on a particular phone number, but rather like them digging through a
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by arghwhat 3y ago
Aaand, trying to delete your account you get: Error: Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.
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by arghwhat 3y ago
Vlad's interpretation of GDPR is both horribly wrong and very concerning. Personally Identifiable Information includes anything that can be used to uncover a person's identity. An email address is PII, as it can be used to identif
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by arghwhat 3y ago
It does seem like an oversight, but there's nothing "suboptimal non-default options" about iteven if the implementation posted here seems somewhat hastily hacked together.
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by arghwhat 3y ago
> award winning While I know it wasn't meant bad I thought I'd note that others like might see such remarks in negative light, detracting from your point. Let the paper talk for itself, rather than claim it has value because ot
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by arghwhat 3y ago
Uploading a key does not imply any decision regarding email. I may need it to sign tarballs or commits for example, and the key could very well have been lost to time. The presence of a key on a key server is in no way or form an explicit o
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by arghwhat 3y ago
1. The document you link states that seL4 requires a specific CPU design that is work-in-progress by Integrated Systems Lab (a RISC-V CPU of course) to provide the claimed guarantees. This makes no sense in the context of testing performanc
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by arghwhat 3y ago
I feel like this needs some reproducible datapoints and references to be anything more than an unsupported anecdote. In recent times it also requires studying seL4's implementation of modern CPU vulnerability mitigations.
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by arghwhat 3y ago
It is whataboutism to complain about court action against a bad thing the basis that others, outside the court jurisdiction, will still do the bad thing. > are going to have the net effect of at best kicking the can down the road a few m
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by arghwhat 3y ago
CO2 isn't poison unless it doubles. The other air pollutants are though, although I'm also sure that certain kingdom of life wouldn't appreciate the collapse of biological ecosystems as CO2 further insulates the planet. You
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by arghwhat 3y ago
To play devil's advocate, it seems fair that a human has the right to not have their air poisoned, or to have a future on the planet for their kids. No idea if that matches any of its articles though. However, the European Convention o
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by arghwhat 3y ago
I have not formed any opinion whatsoever about the decision itself, but regarding the court itself: > This is legitimately insane. You have a court, which was created in an attempt to give legal options to victims of crimes committed by
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by arghwhat 3y ago
The AI "stole" it's training data the same way that those fleshy composers "stole" their training data.
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by arghwhat 3y ago
People doing mechanical work made art through physical objects. Woodwork, pottery, glassware, you name it. There are now far more options, both on the high and low-end, with the whole area being more affordable. The quality of most produc
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by arghwhat 3y ago
As opposed to paying $5 to a singular composer that only exists because of other real composers, singers, etc., as they studied the craft. On the other hand, the easy access may cause new types of artists to appear by lowering the bar of
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by arghwhat 3y ago
By the composer, yes, but the composer here is the AI. In neither case did the musicians that the composer studied/trained on get asked. And that's the point: The difference is the replacement of 1 flesh-and-blood composer with 1
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by arghwhat 3y ago
I suspect the issue here is just the assumption that LLMs are "just flipping some bits", while simultaneously putting humanity on some unreachable pedestal. We are all nothing but a horde of molecular machines. Your "you&quot
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by arghwhat 3y ago
> they have actual preferences That's just a bias. > natural qualities to their voice That's the physical limitations I referred to, which isn't something humans tend to be happy about but can sometimes end up being a d
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by arghwhat 3y ago
Despite your personal fears I believe I spoke for the vast majority of cases rather than just for myself. Although I suppose royalty-free stock music is the norm nowadays for most commercial uses, which takes it a step further, anonymizing
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by arghwhat 3y ago
Using the skills they presumably developed listening to and copying other singers and studying music, with an instrument built from roughly the same instructions as everyone else. That a person can't sound like the weighted average is
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by arghwhat 3y ago
> In the case of a human studying, a person puts in effort and gets rewarded for their efforts. When someone needs something composed, they don't learn how to write music. They pay someone else the bare minimum, e.g. a few bucks on
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by arghwhat 3y ago
These kinds of discussions always leaves me wondering if people consider how actual humans learn their craft, constantly studying and mimicking others. Inspiration is to use existing experiences however mixed together, while originality com

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